BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean

Folks making >5Lpm, how to live?

Basically want to know how you guys strategise and manage spending. Few questions to make this easier

  1. Are you single/married? 1.5 Do you have impulsive spending issues?
  2. What’s the spending + investment + necessities + savings split?
  3. Are y’all targeting “FIRE” or just winging it?

Been making this much for a while now, married too, zero generational wealth. Somehow we’ve got very bad financial discipline and manage to save only under a lakh per month in Bangalore. Feel we should be doing better :/

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GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Damn, do you stay at the Leela palace or something 😅

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Zepto19mo

lol I wish.

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Damn, what are you blowing most cash on!

JumpyMuffin
JumpyMuffin
Slice19mo

Get rid of cred too. Look at your bank/cc statement to know culprits.

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Zepto18mo

Why though? Is there an issue with CRED?

JumpyMuffin
JumpyMuffin
Slice18mo

Will encourage you to spend on the prodycts they have offers + gambling they push on their app + gambling apps also

QuirkyPretzel
QuirkyPretzel
SAP19mo

Looking for this type of stress in life

SillyNugget
SillyNugget

Bhagwan aisa dukh mujh ko bhi de🙃

DancingTaco
DancingTaco

+1

ZestyNarwhal
ZestyNarwhal
Meesho19mo

I make somewhere in that area. With my entire family, my expenses touch 1.3L in my bad expenses month. In a normal month, max 75k. I live in a rented house with my parents and my partner.

The key is to not increase your expenses as your income grows.

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

Can you please tell how many years of exp you have? 5 lakhs a month sounds so good, I wanna reach there as quick as possible :)

Also you work in tech?

PeppyPickle
PeppyPickle
TCS18mo

How are you making so much even after tax deductions?

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Zepto18mo

This is both me and my wife together.
Can’t imagine making all that by myself :P

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

5 is what you make, your other half is also working? I would say 2 people can live a very very lavish life in 2 lakhs, how are you saving just a lakh

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

Just saw you have a home loan that would be 1lakh? Still 2 lakhs can be saved atleast

Uninstall all ecommerce apps like Flipkart, Amazon, buy premium of yt and Spotify to see less product ads

ZoomyWaffle
ZoomyWaffle
  1. Married with 2 kids
  2. No impulsive issues. Try to save 3 toom 4 L each month, across debt & equity instruments
  3. Yes targeting FIRE

Life still isn't easy, post 40, job options get v limited. Rental Expenses, kids education has been rising at higher rate than my income increase. Opportunity for side gigs and secondary income are rare or too risky.

Each week, atleast once i think of resigning from the company i work due to poor work culture and environment but have to continue to maintain family and reach financial goals.

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Zepto18mo

Hang in there. You’ve achieved a lot in
life. Story of every 9-5er. We just have to keep going 😅

TwirlyJellybean
TwirlyJellybean

@jaaniDushman What is your tech stack ?

MagicalNugget
MagicalNugget

15L+ / month minus 6L+ / month tax = 9L+ / month to play around with.

YOLOing all of it 😄

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